Abstract:

After the Tanzimat, making joint investments with foreign companies after developing relationships have been said. The innovations of the industrial revolution emerged as a result of the need in Ottoman society and is seen as the developing world; the Telegraph, Electricity, railways, factories wait for-it is planned to equip students in the country. In this case, both adhering to the law and the agreement requires Western bureaucracy has made it compulsory to be made in accordance with the order of the Ottoman bureaucracy. However, the two agreements are prepared with only the use of the foreign language in the Act has brought many problems in the bureaucracy. A different understanding of the contract provisions, especially Western agents under the articles of association of the company the state from the economic point of interpretation in their favor, and inflicted many losses. The Ottoman state in this situation, the contract contained in the source language in order to eliminate such ambiguity in the use of Turkish as a foreign language with foreign companies in investment was made on. In this study, foreign companies in investment treaties and in the Treaty of the Turkish bureaucracy with decisions about the use of application forms, on the basis of the documents in the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Ministry will be analyzed and discussed.

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